What Things May Come

Born in 1992, Marianne Fahmy lives and works in Alexandria, Egypt. She earned her BA in Painting from Alexandria University, Egypt. She studied at Mass Alexandria independent art program in 2016. Fahmy works with installation and film. Her focus is on undocumented histories related to people, architecture, and language. Her current work revolves around the history of water, where she finds possibilities for creative additions, that transform prescribed conventional narratives into a boundless by time artwork. In conversation with scientists and urban planners, she adds believability to the fabricated narratives she creates, where she combines science, historical events, and myths to imagine a future society to come. Her work was part of 7th Yokohama triennial in Japan, the 13th Havana Biennale in 2019, Dakar Biennale in 2018, and Manifesta 13th in 2020. Her films has screened at Nurnberg Contemporary Art Museum, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Postmasters Gallery, New York, and the Museum of Ljubljana, Slovenia.